Yet another incident of a massive data breach has come up, and the affected platform is Quora this time. In a blog post penned by Quora CEO Adam...
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Amazon thumped by a major data breach just as it gears up for Black Friday
Just as Amazon geared up for the busiest period of sales in the year, they were thumped by a mysterious data breach. This data breach comes just two...
Income, immigration, and tax data stolen in massive Healthcare.gov breach
In a massive breach of data, hackers targeted Healthcare.gov applications and made off with data associated with thousands of people, by breaking...
Microsoft’s latest Windows patch protects you from NSA’s hacking tools
This is actually course correction. Why you ask ? Well, Microsoft had previously declined to release fixes for three specific security patches, which...
Now, even hovering over a link in Microsoft PowerPoint can infect your PC with malware
We’re all well acquainted with Microsoft PowerPoint, which is one of the most widely employed presentation software. The same is now said to be...
New NTFS exploit allows any website to hang or crash Windows 7/Windows 8 machines
After the widespread WannaCry ransomware attacks earlier last week, Microsoft seems to be staring at another exploit right around the curb. This...
Newly discovered flaw in networking software can potentially lead to another WannaCry-like attack
While organizations are still reeling from the effects of the widespread WannaCry ransomware attack, security researchers have now discovered an...
North Korea ‘highly likely’ to be behind WannaCry ransomware attacks, says Symantec
Symantec Corp, the cyber security expert on Monday said that the WannaCry ransomware attacks which occurred earlier this month were “highly...
Shadow Brokers threaten to sell NSA-leaked hacking tools each month, starting in June
Shadow Brokers, the organization responsible for leaking stolen NSA hacking tools back in March 2017, is back and has posted an update message on...
WannaCry ransomware attack code said to have links to North Korea: Kaspersky Lab
Over the weekend, the ‘WannaCry‘ ransomware attack reeked havoc over the cyber security practices of nearly 150 countries across the...
MeitY reaches out to RBI, NIC, Aadhaar to warn against ‘Wanna Cry’ ransomware
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has advised stakeholders like RBI, National Payments Corporation of India, NIC and...
Project Zero unearths bug in Broadcom chip deployed in iPhone, Nexus and other premium devices
Apple has released a brand new security patch and this s one patch you should get into your device, asap. Interestingly, Google’s Project Zero...
Avast CEO talks about his company’s recent, $1.4 Billion AVG acquisition
Avast and AVG have been two of the most well known anti-virus brands around since ages. I don’t know about you, but all the systems i have...
Project Springfield: Microsoft’s new AI-based fuzz-testing tool
Fuzz testing, one of the oldest methods of finding vulnerabilities and bugs in a software, is finally getting a dose of innovation thanks to...
The Microsoft Edge browser is now safer for enterprise purposes
Microsoft’s IGNITE Conference is on folks and is home to several new announcements on the tech giant’s part. The company has just...
FBI sued by Associated Press, Vice Media over San Bernardino iPhone hack
There was a huge controversy earlier this year, when the FBI got into a tussle with Apple over the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone. While the...
Pretending to be a Pokemon Go guide, malicious app infects thousands
If you have been downloading Pokemon Go guides in your bid to be the best of them, well, you may unwittingly have invited some serious trouble your...
Distributed denial of service(DDoS) attacks on a rise, India among top 10 source countries: Akamai
And we’re back again, to talk (again!) about the crushing state of cyber-security in the world — and we now have the numbers to support...
Critical zero-day vulnerabilities in MySQL allow hackers to takeover your servers
After Apple, cybersecurity researchers have now uncovered two zero-day vulnerabilities in the biggest open-source database management application...
Two Israeli teens arrested for allegedly running DDoS-for-hire service ‘vDOS’, hoards of client data spilled online
Another day, and yet another proof of the appalling state of cybersecurity at the moment. Cybersecurity guru Brian Krebs of KrebsonSecurity, on...
Google plugs multiple security holes in latest update, removes malware containing apps from Play Store
Google has released a brand new update that have taken the level of security up on Android by yet another notch. The company has plugged a couple of...